The Alvin Greene for U.S. Senate campaign is currently being run partly from the small South Carolina town of Manning, partly from Los Angeles and partly from Austria, according to the new consulting firm that has taken the reins of perhaps the most famous senatorial campaign in the country.

The Warren Group, a new firm started by former California congressional candidate and progressive third party activist Donna Warren, consists of Warren, South Carolina lawyer Felipe Farley and his brother Jonathon, who will be in Austria for the next few weeks.

The Greene for Senate campaign is their first project together.

“We decided to come together around the excitement of Mr. Greene’s candidacy and we’re really glad to be on board with him,” Farley tells Free Times July 22.

The campaign’s message is simple: to keep South Carolinians in their homes and to give them jobs.

Warren, a retired auditor with the U.S. Department of Defense, initially started The Warren Group to handle work she’d been offered from the U.S. Department of Energy, but when she heard the story of Alvin Greene, she scrapped those plans and decided to focus on the world-famous "Mystery Man" from Manning.

She says they're taking Greene on pro-bono, but will make sure it's reported on his disclosure reports.

"That's how much we believe in him," she says.

Warren had been watching the media reaction to Greene’s win and said she was shocked at the attacks, such as those that came from as high up as U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn and others.

“I said, ‘Oh, no, this cannot be; this is horrible,’” she says.

She picked up the phone and gave Greene a call.

“I said, ‘Who do you have working on your campaign? Who’s helping you?’”

Greene told her he had some support in town, but no one really official.

“I said, ‘Well, I support you, too,’” Warren says.

Greene took her on.

In the late ‘90s, Warren made headlines when she sued the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice for “allowing” crack cocaine to infest in her south-central Los Angeles neighborhood.

She also once ran for lieutenant governor in California and has fought for human rights and social justice for the past 14 years, she says.

It was a little over two weeks ago when she contacted Greene. Since then, The Warren Group has been advising him on political matters, helping set up interviews with national morning talk shows and drafting press releases.

“I am constantly representing candidates that truly represent the people,” Warren says. “When I saw that he won the primary I said, ‘Oh, this is absolutely beautiful’ … I want to help him win.”

Like Greene’s surprising and unexpected candidacy, The Warren Group kind of came together the same way.

Back in the small South Carolina town of Simpsonville, Felipe Farley remembers getting a call from his younger brother when the Alvin Greene story started hitting major news outlets. Farley is a 46-year-old Harvard educated lawyer specializing in intellectual property law and patents, among other things.

“It was a very interesting story,” Farley says about his first glimpse into the Alvin Greene saga. He was hooked.

Farley called Greene and offered to help. Greene said he could come on board. Networking together with Warren and Farley’s brother Jonathon in Austria, The Warren Group came alive.

Already, Farley thinks the narrative of the Greene story has changed in the past few weeks; the candidate gave his first public speech, at which Farley was present wearing an emerald "Greene Senate" T-shirt, at a meeting of the Manning branch of the NAACP July 18 to much media fanfare including reporters from as far away as London.

“At that point, the press really wasn’t giving any sort of respect that should be afforded the duly nominated Senate candidate for the United States Senate seat,” Farley says. “We think now that things are going in the right direction; we think he’s got a great message for the people of South Carolina, and I’m really excited to be part of Mr. Greene’s team.”

Farley says he’s not a campaign spokesman.

"He does a very good job speaking for himself," he says of Greene. "A very good job."

But Farley believes in the ideas his candidate has for moving South Carolina forward and says that while people might be seeing more public speeches by Greene, they shouldn't expect any barn-burners.  

“He’s not going to make long, long speeches,” Farley says. “He’s not a fellow who is going to talk endlessly like some politicians or some campaign advisors.”

Farley grew up in Rockport, N.Y., where his parents taught at the state college for 40 years. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 and has lived in Simpsonville for a while. He hopes to move to Manning soon.

Farley is what Warren calls some of the “boots on the ground,” while she handles the media side on the West Coast.

“Hopefully I come across as just a regular fellow like Mr. Greene, looking out for the people of South Carolina,” Farley says. “We think [Greene has] got a great message and we expect him to do very well in November. I think a lot of people aren’t giving him credit. I think his senate opponent underestimated him in the primary and I think people are continuing to underestimate Mr. Greene.”